AjauJu"iT  190™'}     Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  47 
with  inter-state  commerce,  (4)  that  foreign  Pharmacopoeias  shall  be  recog- 
nized only  where  drugs  are  not  official  in  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  and  (5) 
that  new  regulations  be  made  by  the  U.  S.  Customs  Service  whereby  abso- 
lutely uniform  conditions  in  the  entry  of  drugs  into  the  country  shall  obtain 
at  all  the  ports,  and 
Resolved,  That  copies  of  these  resolutions  be  sent  to  the  proper  govern- 
mental authorities. 
Mr.  Beringer  said  that  this  question  was  brought  up  at  the  Atlantic 
City  meeting  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.,  and  that  owing  to  the  difficulties 
pertaining  to  the  repealing  of  a  law  of  this  kind,  and  the  enacting  of 
a  new  one,  as  pointed  out  at  the  time  by  the  Inspector  at  New  York, 
he  moved  that  the  resolution  be  made  a  special  topic  of  discussion  at 
the  November  meeting,  which  motion  was  adopted. 
A  resume  of  the  work  accomplished  at  the  recent  meeting  of  the 
British  Pharmaceutical  Conference  was  given  by  John  K.  Thum 
(see  the  November  number  of  this  Journal). 
Owing  to  the  length  of  the  program,  Professor  Kraemer  deferred 
the  presentation  of  a  paper  which  he  had  prepared  on  "  Arthur 
Meyer  and  the  Botanic  Gardens  at  Marburg  "  until  a  subsequent 
meeting. 
NOVEMBER. 
The  second  stated  meeting  of  the  current  series  was  held  Tuesday 
afternoon,  November  17,  with  Dr.  A.  W.  Miller,  Corresponding 
Secretary  of  the  College,  in  the  chair.  In  accordance  with  the  action 
of  the  members  at  the  previous  meeting  (see  page  47),  the  Drug 
Importation  Act  of  1848  was  the  topic  selected  for  discussion,  and  in 
opening  the  meeting  Dr.  Miller  read  the  preamble  and  resolutions 
pertaining  to  the  Act  offered  by  Joseph  W.  England. 
The  discussion  was  opened  by  representatives  of  the  U.  S.  Cus- 
toms Service  at  the  port  of  Philadelphia,  three  of  whom  were 
present,  namely,  Benjamin  P.  Ashmead,  Examiner  of  Drugs,  W.  E. 
Dickeson  and  Dr.  C.  C.  Roberts.  Mr.  Ashmead  in  a  brief  paper 
(see  page  16),  outlined  the  procedure  in  the  examination  of  imported 
drugs  under  the  Customs  Regulations  of  1908. 
Mr.  Dickeson  said  that  the  examinations  of  drugs  at  the  port  of 
Philadelphia  were  made  with  due  care  and  impartiality,  the  samples 
being  submitted  to  those  who  make  the  examinations  according  to 
serial  numbers  and  without  their  knowing  who  were  the  importers. 
He  thought  that  perhaps  the  standards  are  too  high,  but  stated  that 
as  a  rule  the  drugs  received  at  the  Philadelphia  port  are  of  good 
